Answer: Our faith is of greater worth than gold, (verse
7).
MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:
Job 23:10: "But He knows the way
that I take; when He has tested me, I will come forth as
gold."
Psalm 66:10: "For you, O God,
tested us; You refined us like silver."
Proverbs 17:3: "The crucible for
silver and the furnace for gold, but the Lord tests the
heart."
Isaiah 48:10: [God said,] "See, I
have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the
furnace of affliction."
1 Peter 1:18-19: "For you know that
it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you
were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from
your forefathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, a Lamb
without blemish or defect."
